Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: soc: renesas: Move renesas.yaml from arm to soc

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 17/08/2022 12:30, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> 
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 7:41 PM Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 12:17:08PM +0100, Lad Prabhakar wrote:
>>> renesas.yaml lists out all the Renesas SoC's and the platforms/EVK's which
>>> is either ARM32/ARM64. It would rather make sense if we move renesas.yaml
>>> to the soc/renesas folder instead. This is in preparation for adding a new
>>> SoC (RZ/Five) from Renesas which is based on RISC-V.
>>
>> Please post this as part of the above.
>>
>> bindings/soc/ is just a dumping ground for stuff that doesn't fit
>> anywhere. We've mostly cleaned bindings/arm/ of that, so I don't really
> 
> Note that the target of this move is not .../bindings/soc/, but

bindings/soc/ means bindings/soc/vendor/, so it means bindings/soc/renesas/.

There are no files in bindings/soc/ directly.


> .../bindings/soc/renesas/, so it's a bit less of a dumping ground.

Therefore it is still dumping ground.

> Perhaps this is also a good opportunity to split renesas.yaml per
> family or product group
> (renesas,{rmobile,rcar-gen[1234],rza,rzg,rzn,...}.yaml?
> A fine-grained split may cause headaches with RZ/G2UL and RZ/Five
> sharing the same SoC Base, but a coarse-grained split keeping all RZ/G
> (after all RZ/Five is part of RZ/G) or even all RZ series together should work.
> 
>> want to start that again. I would propose bindings/board/ instead if we
>> move in this direction.
> 
> .../bindings/board has the issue with the same boards used with
> multiple pin-compatible SoCs, SiPs, and SoMs.


Best regards,
Krzysztof